Badlands Media

Ashe in America, Christy Lupo and Jackie Espada get into toe fungus, health goals and keynote speaker, with plenty of commentary along the way. First up, the crew gets into Face ID, YouTube and Safari. Then it's on to toe fungus, with Brave, Gateway Pundit and Safari in the mix. From there, the conversation moves to cooked salmon, with ChatGPT and Claude in the mix. Later, the focus shifts to health goals, with Sam, Walmart and Alfredo in the mix. After that, the talk turns to zip code. Next, the crew gets into keynote speaker, with Rick, Carter and Let...

Jon is back in the spaceship studio after a weekend of fan boats, alligators and a surprise engagement party, and there is plenty to unpack. First up is Brazil, where Flávio Bolsonaro won the first round over Lula and heads to a runoff, and the online victory lap crediting the USAID cuts for a run of right-leaning wins across South America. Jon makes the case for keeping the same election standards whether your team wins or loses, and explains why the illusion of legitimacy matters more to the establishment than any single result. Then it's the leaked Ken Paxton a...

CannCon, Cam Cooksey and Alpha Warrior are back for Week 5. CannCon reports from the Packers game in Tampa, where a native Floridian learned what 92 degrees with no Gulf breeze feels like and Green Bay fans still drowned out the home crowd. Alpha's 49ers are 4-0, his fantasy teams rally late behind Chuba Hubbard, and the crew argues over whether it's fair to wish an ankle sprain on Atlanta's Drake London before Monday Night Football. Cam runs through a list of what every team needs to win the Super Bowl, from a new offensive line in Green Bay to Nick Foles...

CannCon is back from a sweltering weekend in Tampa with a Packers win and a full docket. It starts in Siberia, where a lab worker's death from a suspected plague has nearly 200 people under observation, and with why, after COVID, nobody trusts the officials telling us not to worry. His fix for gain-of-function research: give it its own island, far away from the rest of us. Then the Ninth Circuit pauses the reinstatement of a fired Seattle U.S. attorney, Justice Alito says he has a suspect in the Dobbs leak, and President Trump calls for mandatory prison time for...

JB opens the week with some perspective for Gator fans after the loss at Mizzou, plus a victory lap for the Jaguars, then gets down to what he calls a world of competing confusions. A lab accident and a researcher's death in Siberia set up "Poor, Poor Russia": why Russia is running China's old playbook, why geopolitics is never binary, and how rogue actors inside every nation-state, Russia's siloviki included, can push even Putin around. From there JB sings the praises of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, from sinking nine of ten threes with Air Force cadets to his "Send...

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid break down October Surprise and Admiral Rogers, Hillary, Comey and pre-Q levels and Josh on Flynn, Bongino and Mockingbird fights, with plenty of commentary along the way. Also on the docket: SAVE Act and Supreme Court predicates. You won't want to miss this one.

Burning Bright and Jonathan Drake break down Burning Bright opens with GoT and Narrative branding, Burning Bright teases the MAGA King and Tolkien and Overton windows and excommunication, with plenty of commentary along the way. Also on the docket: Drake and BB introduce Aragorn as MAGA king analog. You won't want to miss this one.

Jonathan Drake digs into Fractional reserve and Bitcoin teaser, Credit based on productive value and Free banking versus modern finance, with plenty of commentary along the way. Also on the docket: Centralization and parallel systems. You won't want to miss this one.

With Jon out tonight, Chris Paul is joined by Burning Bright for the Saturday Power Hour. They open on why they would rather spoil the movie than pretend it isn't scripted, casting Trump as a Dungeon Master who sets the boundaries of the game, and why the midterms matter less than the mass psychological shift underneath them. From there: Trump as Deadpool, speaking to several audiences at once as he seeds a counter-narrative around Bibi's plane story; Trump's jab at Tom Cotton over permanent daylight saving time, and how it puts Congress and the uniparty on the spot; and a...

Jon Herold gets into Nathanael Madden on his father, a health crisis and his brother, Nathanael on Emerald Med's origin and hemp's 1930s economy and on why lobbyists pushed the hemp ban in the CR, with plenty of commentary along the way. Also on the docket: Nathanael Madden on Emerald Med's hemp oil, balm and gummies. Grab a coffee and settle in.

The crew dig into Cam Cooksey and Jackie Espada on consuming too much news, Cam Cooksey on the Soft Disclosure ad and GART 14 cameos and Cam Cooksey on Trump at Georgia-Alabama, artificial news, with plenty of commentary along the way. You won't want to miss this one.

With the midterms a month out, Matt admits that for the first time in his life he can't read the mood of the country. The polls point every which way, his old bellwether friends have hardened into partisans, and his Facebook feed of burned-out liberals offers more fatigue than fury, which he takes as a good sign for Republicans. To make sense of it all, he time-travels to 1966, the year of his first memories and another midterm: Swinging London, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Reagan's first run for governor and peak Nelson Rockefeller, campaign ads included.

The Friday crew tries to work out who Steve Hilton's mail-in ballot campaign ad was actually made for, then revisits the proposed Palm Springs AIDS memorial whose design drew some very unfortunate comparisons, along with a reported half-million-dollar price tag. From there: doubts about a dramatic airliner plunge, the creepy movies of 1999, Fight Club's Chinese ending, Tennessee's failed execution and whether a robot should flip the switch, and Grok's reply when asked to remove the "fake gods" from a picture. And yes, GART 14 is headed to St. Pete Beach.

Jordan Sather digs into Coca-Cola's SNAP revenue and the HHS-EPA glyphosate review and Vitamin D and K, winter sleep and chopping firewood, with plenty of commentary along the way. Grab a coffee and settle in.

Jon Herold digs deep into a lengthy Atlantic article on Kash Patel's election integrity investigations, picking it apart for bias while still finding the underlying questions about October surprise timing genuinely worth discussing ahead of the midterms. He walks through the escalating public feud between Dan Bongino and General Flynn, playing old December 2025 Alex Jones footage where Flynn predicted Bongino would eventually turn on him, and digs into reports of Flynn's $100,000 a month foreign lobbying contract with Republic Srpska. Other topics include Europe releasing stockpiled diesel oil ahead of the midterms, Putin's nuclear weapons warning over Kaliningrad, Georgia's push...

CannCon and Chris Paul close the week by workshopping a new Friday segment idea before diving into a Politico story on a judge ruling Trump unlawfully removed a US Attorney, and what that says about who actually holds appointment power. The meat of the show is the release of Brian Cole's confession transcripts in the January 5th pipe bomb case, where the hosts walk through the interrogation dynamics and why the reaction online has been so wildly off base. From there it is a Georgia election board leader requesting federal intervention, a Miami judge holding that Congress cannot ban...

Running on no sleep after a late night honoring his wife at a community event in Jacksonville, JB White still shows up with a lesson in media literacy. He walks through how to use tools built into X to spot satirical or manufactured stories before they spread, using a viral post as a live example, and pushes back on some of his own community's conspiracy theorizing. He replays Pete Hegseth's speech on faith within the military, breaks down President Trump's recent remarks on artificial intelligence and the push to brand it super intelligence, and previews a deeper discussion he...

Chris Paul and Burning Bright revisit Matt Reeves's 2022 take on the Caped Crusader, and both come away more impressed than they expected to be. Expect a thoughtful dive into the film's central theme of vengeance versus justice, what it means to be harmed by a system versus harmed by people, and how that tension plays out through Bruce Wayne's arc. There's a genuinely funny personal theater horror story woven into the discussion, plenty of comic book fan perspective comparing this take to Nolan's trilogy, and a sharp pivot into real world parallels about political lying, informed consent, and what...

CannCon welcomes new grandpa Alpha Warrior back from a very busy week before handing the floor over to guest Nathan Madden of Emerald Med. Nathan dives deep into the hemp plant, breaking down what actually separates CBD from THC, why hemp has way more compound diversity than marijuana, and why the industry keeps getting strangled by lobbying dollars from pharma, alcohol, and big oil. The conversation turns into a full takedown of what the guys call the psyop around hemp, including a case made for hemp based products replacing everything from plastics to car seats, and a push to...

Frankie Val is flying solo tonight after guest Adam Davies (the Bigfoot conference man) had to bump to Monday, so what was meant to be an interview becomes a thrown together grab bag, which Frankie insists is somehow more like the real him anyway.

He opens on a grim headline: Tennessee's failed execution of death row inmate Krista Pike, who survived two lethal injection doses, and uses it to question the strange ceremony and bureaucracy around capital punishment. A caller who actually knew Pike in school calls in with a haunting account of her childhood.

...

Jon Herold, still traveling in Florida, digs into an underreported moment in Trump's new Time magazine interview where he declines to rule out invoking the Insurrection Act around the midterms, arguing the interviewer let a genuinely newsworthy comment slide without follow up. He covers a handful of real election fraud prosecutions, including a wild California city council case involving ballots mailed from Pakistan, then breaks down Pete Hegseth's announcements of Project Meridian (a future warfare council featuring Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich) and the new Autonomous Warfare Command. That leads into a lengthy, thoughtful read through passages...

Welcome to the Singularity, where the future arrives faster than your software updates. In this live debut, Matt McDonagh, a tech investor with 15 years in machine learning, explains how we got here. He starts with Alan Turing's famous test and the AI winters, then moves through Deep Blue, AlphaGo, the transformer breakthrough and the ChatGPT moment.

Next, Matt explains why AI isn't only a computer story. He calls it an all of economy story, powered by electricity, nuclear, rare earths, copper and a lot of very busy nerds. He takes on job loss fears and the data...

CannCon and Ashe in America dive into Chapter 16 of The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, titled The Creature Comes to America, and the central bank saga finally lands on home soil. This week covers the Bank of North America, the nation's very first central bank, chartered before the Constitution was even drafted, along with the First Bank of the United States that followed in 1791. The hosts walk through how both institutions were modeled after the Bank of England, how fractional reserve tricks snuck their way into the new nation almost immediately, and the genuinely wild story...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior open on a somber note with the passing of Georgia election integrity researcher Joe Rossi, and CannCon walks through Rossi's Fulton County work in detail, including how ballots were pulled from the middle of batches and rerun through different scanners on different days, a four thousand vote swing representing a third of the state's margin. From there it is Todd Blanche on more arrests, a Tennessee governor ordering an investigation into a failed execution, and a 54 billion dollar Alaska natural gas project tied to a tight Senate race. The back half covers a hijack attempt...

Jon Herold and Burning Bright kick off with a genuinely funny bit about having to rename "artificial intelligence" to "super intelligence" following Trump's executive order, joking about domain squatting and whether OpenAI needs to rebrand itself entirely. From there it's into heavier territory, including lingering doubts about whether real accountability is coming for certain high profile figures, with the hosts bracing listeners for the possibility that the "rug" never actually gets pulled.

Election security takes center stage in the back half, with a Secretary of War memo about protecting the 2026 midterms from foreign interference getting a full...

Ghost catches up after a stretch away, and he's got a lot to say. He opens on a genuine white pill: the Nippon Steel golden share deal is quietly rebuilding America's steel industry, with new mills opening or under construction from Colorado to West Virginia, and Ghost draws on his own day job in construction to explain why the current steel shortage actually signals good things ahead. From there he pivots to Dennis Rodman, newly back in Trump's orbit as a possible bridge to another Kim Jong Un summit, and tells the wild story of how that friendship began...

This episode features guests Nik (Mr. Fitnick) and Conservativewilky (Colton Wilson), co-hosts of the Nik and Colton Show, discussing local government and school funding disputes in Ocean County, New Jersey, centered on the town of Lakewood. The guests make a series of unverified claims about the local Jewish community, including allegations of coordinated political control, misuse of public funds, and fraud, framed as findings from their own on the ground reporting. They also describe facing legal cease and desist letters after making public accusations against named individuals and discuss the Anti-Defamation League's complaint process. Listener note: this episode centers...

Trump gathers senators, governors, and a lineup of energy CEOs to announce one of the largest infrastructure packages of his presidency, nearly $200 billion from South Korea funding eight new nuclear plants, a massive Texas gas facility, and the long promised Alaska LNG pipeline, a project politicians have talked about for five decades. Expect genuine excitement from Alaska's delegation, some spirited jabs at a decoy Senate candidate sharing Dan Sullivan's name, and plenty of credit passed around between cabinet secretaries. The Q&A afterward goes everywhere: a wild, almost unbelievable story about a plumber who allegedly saved a hijacked flight...

Jordan Sather joins Chris Ponder and Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast for a two part conversation that starts deep in theoretical physics and ends in health truth. Jordan pushes on whether the information system can evaluate theoretical models like general relativity or the multiverse, and Chris explains the crucial distinction: this tool doesn't explore theory, it entangles what is observably true into the structure of the universe itself, flagging incongruence rather than guessing at possibility. The conversation then pivots into health, privacy, and the open source nature of a system built on an immutable ledger rather than encryption...

Jon Herold, broadcasting from a Florida guest room, pushes back on a wave of online attacks accusing Badlands of paying hosts to tell people not to vote, sharing a viral (and satirical) post defending the network's diversity of opinion. He digs into the Senate blocking a congressional stock trading ban after Democrats called it a toothless election year gimmick, an odd Gallup poll showing Republican trust in mainstream media rebounding sharply this year, and Trump's new executive order rebranding "artificial intelligence" as "superintelligence" alongside a voluntary safety accord signed by major tech CEOs, including Anthropic's Dario Amodei. Other topics...

CannCon and Ashe kick off Ash Wednesday joking that they have spent more time together this week than with anyone else, then dive into a college athletics fight that turns into a real discussion about federal overreach and the Commerce Clause. From there it is a genuinely fun segment on the State Department rolling out an at home passport application, complete with Rubio demoing the process and a new gold box that CannCon suspects will troll a lot of people. The heart of the show is CISA releasing its first public election security plan since much of that work...

JB White opens with a fun Gators moment straight from the Oval Office before shifting into heavier territory. He walks through the dramatic story of an attempted hijacking on a Fly Dubai flight and the passengers who stopped it, then pushes back on some of the conspiracy talk that followed. He previews the next Badlands Media GART event coming to St Petersburg Beach in November, replays a historian's breakdown of the Russiagate saga, and spends real time addressing a public falling out among Badlands content creators over accusations of disloyalty and free speech. JB shares his own measured response...

CannCon and Ashe in America welcome back Colonel Shawn Smith for a genuinely wonky, connect-the-dots hour. The thread starts in Puerto Rico, where the government called in the feds over its Dominion machines, and quickly widens into a study of Mojave, the AI outfit that shows up in a string of Reuters stories. Colonel Smith walks through the reporting he says conveniently never names the intelligence-community heavyweight tied to the company's founding, and argues the whole push exists to preserve the illusion that computerized voting can somehow be secured with more AI. He explains how these systems are built...

Alpha Warrior kicks things off with the biggest news of his week, becoming a grandfather to healthy twins, before he and Josh Reid dive back into the political grind. They break down fresh CNN polling on Trump approval and midterm turnout numbers, argue that the math actually favors Republicans no matter how the numbers get spun, and revisit a theory about Democrats sitting on Epstein files leverage as election strategy. They also talk through the bigger philosophical case for why voting still matters even after a decade of hard fought elections, touching on 2016 through 2024 along the way. Expect the...

Jon Herold, pre recording ahead of a family trip, digs into what he calls the most interesting election security development of Trump's second term, a new Pete Hegseth memo directing the entire Defense Intelligence Enterprise, not just NSA and Cyber Command, to actively mobilize against foreign election interference, and walks through the history connecting it to Executive Order 13848 and the original Russia collusion setup. He also plays clips from Jack Smith's tense Senate Judiciary Committee testimony, dissects a new setback in the Florida RICO grand jury case after prosecutor Kurt Olson's abrupt resignation, and experiments live with the new...

Matthew Ehret hands the mic over this week to researcher Rick Hines for a guest deep dive into one of history's favorite unsolved mysteries. Recorded while Ehret was touring occult sites in London, this episode tackles the Atlantis question head on, but skips the usual theosophical detours into Aryan super races and alien space operas. Instead, Hines builds his case straight from Plato's Critias dialogue, tracing the conversation between Solon and Egyptian priests about a forgotten cataclysm and what it might actually reveal about a lost antediluvian civilization. Expect a personal origin story involving Edgar Cayce, new age music...

CannCon and Zak Paine open with a doctor's account of the pressure to stay quiet during the pandemic, which leads into a Just The News piece on the CDC now pushing COVID shots off label for healthy people and the MAHA frustration that has followed. They also look at what the new formulations actually contain. From there it is a Fox News report on Boston funding an immigrant activist program with taxpayer dollars, and Zak chooses violence early with a fiery take on who really benefits from illegal labor. The back half covers a second prosecutor stepping away from...

Tony Robbins kicks things off with philanthropic flair before handing it to Airbnb co founder turned Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia, who unveils America.gov, a single new front door meant to replace roughly 29,000 clunky federal websites. Expect a genuinely slick product demo, complete with a name change walkthrough powered by AI, a parade of frustrated citizen testimonial clips, and some surprisingly candid jokes about DMV lines and fax machines. Trump takes the stage to tie it all together, framing the launch as a restoration of the government's founding promise, before signing an executive order requiring every federal agency...

Jon Herold and Zak Paine open with some election security talk, digging into a new memo from the Secretary of War and a wave of recent wins on the CISA and SAVE database front, before Jon reveals he's more excited than usual for tonight's main event.

For the first time, the show tackles an actual proven conspiracy rather than a theory, walking through the bizarre and tragic real life case of a pizza delivery driver who became an unwitting bank robber with a bomb locked around his neck. Nicknamed the Collar Bomb, it's a story with an...

Ashe in America and Wednesday regular Brian Lupo tackle the AI conversation they have been promising for weeks, joined by Matt McDonagh for some genuine industry insight and a bit of referee duty. The big question on the table, is artificial intelligence steering us toward a golden age of abundance, or something closer to global imprisonment? Expect a lively back and forth on job displacement, from blue collar work to white collar middle management, the AGI to ASI progression, and whether ideas like UBI (and a certain someone's evolving feelings about it) are a real solution or a band...